2008 Apr 2, 6:29A pillow fight in Pike Place Market. "A group of web-connected friends converge at a specified location in the city and at a designated time produce previously concealed pillows and begin an awesome
fight."
flash-mob seattle washington pike-place-market pillow pillow-fight youtube video humor social via:swannman 2008 Apr 2, 6:21Recommended by PA guys: "Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical
objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creati
penny-arcade crayon crayon-physics game games physics drawing 2008 Apr 1, 12:45Candy Chang has some cool public art pieces.
candy-chang art graffiti cultural-disobediance 2008 Mar 31, 3:43Clay Shirky talks to a very small audience. Starts with more examples like prev. video. @20:30 describes interesting problems he hasn't resolved. @31:04 interesting exchange between listeners and
Clay.
video cooperation social web politics law internet culture collaboration community 2008 Mar 31, 1:11Guy messes with various file timestamps on NTFS on Windows.
time timestamp ntfs windows blog article 2008 Mar 31, 1:08"Why would the bad guys do this? To buy time. ...say you arrived at that site via a search engine and you were clueful and you got owned. You're going to give the URL that tried to exploit you to
your local IT security geek and he's going to paste it i
security web internet spam microsoft blog research 2008 Mar 31, 10:36"The advantage, of course, is that developers can integrate WebSlices into their applications just as easily as they can integrate RSS feeds. To illustrate this, and to try out developing a gadget, I
created a WebSlice viewer gadget."
webslice ie8 rss msdn microsoft sean-lyndersay blog vista vista-gadget extension 2008 Mar 28, 10:39Justin's blog posts on regex in .NET.
regex justin-rogers ie programming .net 2008 Mar 28, 10:35Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach "present a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data structures." DoS via worst
case behavior in hash tables and exponential time RegExp's
scott-crosby dan-wallach dos programming regex research security hash 2008 Mar 28, 10:07"Trust the open-source lovin' contributors at Wikipedia to be early adopters of Microsoft web technologies. Beginning just a couple of days ago, Wikipedia user "Soum Yasch" began building Wiki
templates to support the new content-subscription featur
ie8 ie browser wikipedia article 2008 Mar 24, 11:22Tetris Holding LLC trademarked "an instrumental tune in the style of a Russian folk song in 2/2 time or cut time having at least two 8-bar phrases" used in video games. "Trademark Document Retrieval"
links to mp3s of examples from GB Tetris.
tetris copyright game music korobeiniki russia 2008 Mar 24, 9:53'Then, a security guard for the film approached the calmly seated man and told him, "I may have to ask you to leave." "Does anyone else see how ironic this is?" the guy asked.'
article science intelligent-design ben-stein humor 2008 Mar 23, 1:25
I ordered a ThinkGeek Bluetooth Retro Handset to use at home. When I come home I plug my phone in to charge in my room, but then I can't hear it ring
elsewhere in the hosue. The idea was to take this handset which wirelessly connects to cellphones via bluetooth and place it in another part of the house so that I can tell I'm getting an incoming
call. The only issue I have with that setup is that it ringing isn't any louder than conversations held over the phone, that is, the ringing is a little quiet.
The handset pairs with cellphones in the same manner as any other handset over bluetooth. It has an internal rechargeable battery which is charged via a standard USB port built into the base of the
handset and it comes with a USB cable. Next to the USB port is the only button on the phone which is pressed to answer a call, hang up a call, or begin voice dial, held down to turn the handset on
and off, and held down longer to begin pairing with a cellphone. There's a blue LED in one of the holes in the microphone portion of the phone which blinks to indicate if its on or trying to pair.
Transitioning between on, off, and pairing produces a cute sound and a change to the LED.
Overal I'm pleased with its simplicity and use of common parts although I wish there was a way to adjust the volume of the ring.
thinkgeek bluetooth cellphone phone product handset 2008 Mar 23, 12:38
The move of my website to NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is mostly complete except for a few server side things not working yet: RandomGrammar and parts of Vizicious. I'm still very happy with the
NearlyFreeSpeech.NET hosting and so far I've only spent a few cents on hosting. At this rate I'll only spend a few dollars a year.
I've moved all my pages to use the same CSS and hooked it up with cookies to my Kuler color options so now changes to the color theme will
stick and apply to all my pages. I haven't figured out the caching for this yet so you may have to refresh to see changes to color applied.
nearlyfreespeech.net technical webhosting kuler homepage 2008 Mar 19, 11:30Excellent rant on the history and state of IE8's decision to default to super-standards mode vs IE7 mode.
browser internet browser-war ie microsoft history w3c standard standards html css joel-on-software 2008 Mar 18, 1:04"The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world." More cool street art and hacks
cultural-disobediance art street-art street graffiti via:boingboing blog 2008 Mar 17, 10:16Jonathan Coulton's music available as CC mp3s. He did 'Still Alive' the ending theme for Portal and 'Re: Brains' the zombie song.
jonathan-coulton mp3 music download humor cc copyright 2008 Mar 17, 1:25
I've switched from using my own home web server of which one of the harddrives died, to using NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, an actual real live web hosting
service. So far I'm very happy with them and they give me almost exactly what I had on my own home server: ssh access, vim, php, java, etc. etc. The only notable things they don't do are (1) cron
jobs which I use currently and (2) SSL which I don't use currently. I can replace my cron job usage and I suppose I'll have to reevaluate my web hosting if I ever need SSL. At the moment many of
the server side things like Vizicious will be unavailable. I'll work on getting those working again at some point.
technical webhosting webserver server homepage 2008 Mar 17, 12:51Google toolbar updates the IE Feed View like I had suggested on my blog.
google ie rss feed ie7 browser via:walter 2008 Mar 14, 2:39FTA: "We rated 18 movies based on how many laws of physics they mangled, and here's our report card."
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